Karbi

European Pressphoto Agency People queued to cast their votes in the Bormarjong Assembly constituency in Karbi Anglong district, Assam.

Assam Goes to the Polls 2011

European Pressphoto Agency Tribesmen dressed in traditional attire made their way to a polling station in Karbi Anglong district, Assam.

Assam Goes to the Polls 2011

European Pressphoto Agency Polling officials with electronic voting machines and other election material crossed a river to get to a polling station in Karbi Anglong district, Assam.

Assam Goes to the Polls 2011

At left, a Jewish Georgian talked with a Russian soldier in Karbi, Georgia.

Aid Arrives in Georgia 2008

Locals wait for aid distribution in Karbi, Georgia.

Aid Arrives in Georgia 2008

At left, a woman shows the shrapnel in her bedsheet at her bombed house in Karbi, Georgia.

Aid Arrives in Georgia 2008

The women husked the pineapple-formed heads in mortars composed of a hollowed trunk 13, smeared the threshing floor with cow-dung and water to defend it from insects, piled the holcus heads into neat yellow heaps, spanned and crossed by streaks of various colours, brick-red and brownish-purple14, and stacked the Karbi or straw, which was surrounded like the grain with thorn, as a defence against the wild hog.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

The women husked the pineapple-formed heads in mortars composed of a hollowed trunk [13], smeared the threshing floor with cow-dung and water to defend it from insects, piled the holcus heads into neat yellow heaps, spanned and crossed by streaks of various colours, brick-red and brownish-purple [14], and stacked the Karbi or straw, which was surrounded like the grain with thorn, as a defence against the wild hog.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

Among other differences, the Karbi are patrilineal; women do not typically own land, and the oldest son inherits the family's property after the death of the parents.

Ars Technica John Timmer 2011

Among other differences, the Karbi are patrilineal; women do not typically own land, and the oldest son inherits the family's property after the death of the parents.

Ars Technica John Timmer 2011